Regular Expressions 101

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  • All Tokens
  • Common Tokens
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  • Anchors
  • Meta Sequences
  • Quantifiers
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  • Character Classes
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  • A single character of: a, b or c
    [abc]
  • A character except: a, b or c
    [^abc]
  • A character in the range: a-z
    [a-z]
  • A character not in the range: a-z
    [^a-z]
  • A character in the range: a-z or A-Z
    [a-zA-Z]
  • Any single character
    .
  • Alternate - match either a or b
    a|b
  • Any whitespace character
    \s
  • Any non-whitespace character
    \S
  • Any digit
    \d
  • Any non-digit
    \D
  • Any word character
    \w
  • Any non-word character
    \W
  • Non-capturing group
    (?:...)
  • Capturing group
    (...)
  • Zero or one of a
    a?
  • Zero or more of a
    a*
  • One or more of a
    a+
  • Exactly 3 of a
    a{3}
  • 3 or more of a
    a{3,}
  • Between 3 and 6 of a
    a{3,6}
  • Start of string
    ^
  • End of string
    $
  • A word boundary
    \b
  • Non-word boundary
    \B

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// include the latest version of the regex crate in your Cargo.toml extern crate regex; use regex::Regex; fn main() { let regex = Regex::new(r#"(?im)("(post\s*(office)?)?\s*box\s*[#-]?\s*(\d+)?"|"[\w\s]*?p(ost)?\s*[.-]?\s*o?\s*\.?\s*b?(ox)?\.?\s*(\d+)?"|"\s*number\s*\d+")"#).unwrap(); let string = " \"Box 123\", \"Box-122\", \"Box122\", \"HC73 P.O. Box 217\", \"P O Box125\", \"P. O. Box\", \"P.O 123\", \"P.O. Box 123\", \"P.O. Box\", \"P.O.B 123\", \"P.O.B. 123\", \"P.O.B.\", \"POB 123\", \"POB\", \"POBOX123\", \"Po Box\", \"Post 123\", \"Post Box 123\", \"Post Office Box 123\", \"Post Office Box\", \"box #123\", \"box 122\", \"box 123\", \"number 123\", \"p box\", \"p-o box\", \"post office box\" \"The Postal Road\", \"Box Hill\", \"123 Some Street\", \"Controller's Office\", \"pollo St.\", \"123 box canyon rd\", \"777 Post Oak Blvd\", \"PSC 477 Box 396\", \"RR 1 Box 1020\""; let substitution = ""; // result will be a String with the substituted value let result = regex.replace_all(string, substitution); println!("{}", result); }

Please keep in mind that these code samples are automatically generated and are not guaranteed to work. If you find any syntax errors, feel free to submit a bug report. For a full regex reference for Rust, please visit: https://docs.rs/regex/latest/regex/